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The Breitbart News Daily Podcast

Covering the DC Helicopter-Airplane Midair Collision Tragedy; Guest: Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff

The Breitbart News Daily Podcast

SiriusXM

Politics, News

4.4851 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast is entirely focused on the fatal mid-air collision that occurred near our nation's capital between a jet airliner and Black Hawk helicopter. Our host, Mike Slater, covers all of the developing details of the story before talking to an active-duty Black Hawk pilot who offers some active insights on what might have happened. Following our opener, Jay Ratliff, an aviation expert with 30+ years of experience in covering this area, stops by and offers some thoughts on the tragedy and what we should all be looking for in the future regarding this story.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Bright Bart Bart Nuz Daily.

0:17.2

Thanks for being here.

0:19.0

We went to bed last night. I did not hear of this happening

0:23.0

last night, this plane crash, the helicopter at Reagan until I woke up this morning. And we went

0:31.1

on the radio and I asked, does anyone have any expertise in this world? And it was two and

0:36.0

half hours of phone calls

0:37.9

from active duty Black Hawk helicopter pilots,

0:42.7

air traffic controllers.

0:44.8

Some guy is a post-incidence safety investigator.

0:49.3

We had pilots of regional jets

0:53.6

who have flown into Reagan multiple times. The insight was

0:56.5

incredible. If I could throw one insight here before we play our opening segment with the

1:02.5

opening was the active duty pilot helicopter pilot. We had a couple of military people at the

1:08.9

end. One guy was a commander of Blackhawks.

1:15.7

What do you say? He had 21 Black Hawk helicopters under his command. He made point that he would never, or questions why there were only three guys in the helicopter, three service members in it and not

1:22.6

four. He said he would almost, almost always have four and not three, just more, more eyes out there.

1:30.0

So that's one question that I haven't heard anyone even raise, let alone answer.

1:33.7

So that came up later in the show.

1:35.1

But we'll play the opening segment here and the insight, which is a great starting point from an active duty Black Hawk pilot.

2:05.6

Okay. from an active duty Black Hawk pilot. America's greatest country in the world.

2:06.2

Good morning.

2:12.3

Well, we have to cover breaking news right now.

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